millionants productions has unleashed.  Unleashed a new game development team due to client demand.  I will not bore you with the statistics, however 52M Americans between the ages of 2-17, or 82% play games!  And this is not even close to the target demographic for the millionants in-game,  or why the opportunity was siezed to work with millionants productions.

Stay tuned as we unveil a major production!  No details now, but plenty to follow.  If you are hip to genius creations in progress, you will want to follow millionants productions on twitter, @millionants.

                          

Click on the image to launch our interactive M4A1 demo.

                          

Click on the image to launch our interactive Eyeball demo.

                          

“We are “making a scene”, echoes the millionants CEO.  A scene which creates that one in a million interactive  visual experience which far transcends beyond the ordinary. The millionants team brings your concepts to life, literally!”

                          

At millionants productions we use sophisticated motion capture camera and crude wireframes which we then texture, light, and color just like they did in Avatar.  Our Interactive Experience work has sophisticated camera and projection technology that includes custom programming.  To the level of Avatar?

It depends upon your timeline and budget!  Take a look below.  Jaimon Joseph, technology correspondent,  sheds some light on the making of Avatar.  James Cameron made Titanic, Terminator, Total Recall, The Abyss, True Lies and Aliens.  He’s mad about special effects, That’s why Avatar has over three thousand of them. There are about twenty-five frames in a second. Completing a single frame of these effects would take more than thirty hours.  James often forces technology to evolve, to keep pace with his vision. In Avatar, he twisted movie-making technology, in at least four new ways.

Performance/ Motion Capture: 72 to 96 different cameras were rigged up around the set. The floor was marked with a grid, marking the areas covered by each camera. The actors wore special black leotards, with white reflective spots stuck all over. The cameras tracked the movement of those dots, not of the actors.

Computers receiving that camera feed would create rough virtual characters, moving in exactly the same way, instantly. When Zoe Saldanha, the lead actress moved, a crude model of Neytiri, her virtual avatar in the computer, mimicked her actions.  Later of course, those crude wireframes had to be given lighting, texture and color in a separate studio.  More than a Petabyte of such computer data was recorded for the movie–that’s 10 raised to the power six GB. More than two thousand five hundred of our home computers would be needed to store that data.

Expression Cameras: We humans read facial expressions easily. And quickly lose interest in digital faces that don’t properly emote. To make his avatars believable, Cameron made real human actors act out everything. While wearing special headgear, with powerful inbuilt cameras.  Every movement of the eyeball, every dilation of the pupil, every quiver of the lips, every tightening of muscles under the skin was recorded and fed to a computer.

3D Cameras: Real humans often share screen space with the visually rich digital characters in Avatar. To ensure they didn’t look out of place, they had to be shot in three dimensions.

Till recently, 3D cameras were the size of a fridge. And weighed 250 kilos. Two separate cameras, kept a few feet apart, and moved together by huge cranes would record shots, which would later be played by two separate projectors at the theatre.

Camera specialists Vince Pace and Patrick Maxwell made Cameron a light, twenty five kilo 3D camera, Just like our eyes, it’s got two separate inbuilt lenses, which move and change focus on objects independently. A computer combines the images they record and overlaps them to create a 3D effect.

Virtual Camera: This one’s a simple notebook sized LCD screen, with video game like controls built in. But it displays the virtual world being generated by Cameron’s supercomputers, not the real set he’s actually shooting in. Point it at Zoe, the pretty lead actress and what Cameron sees is Neytiri in her jungle glory. Point it at an industrial crane and Cameron sees the huge Home Tree that the natives pray to and live in.

Directors who used computer graphics earlier would have to imagine what their final shots would look like. With the virtual camera, Cameron had it all right in front of his eyes. He could walk to different corners of the set, or change his height from the top of a tree stump to onboard a hovering helicopter. His supercomputers would sense where he was on the grid and recreate his virtual planet from that perspective. He could choose a final shot from wherever he pleased on the grid, and the computers would faithfully generate it.

All this from a man, who’s actually advised NASA, about cameras that they should use on a future mission to MARS. But does all this tech and all that money (Avatar cost about $230 million to produce – the most expensive movie ever made) translate into a classic?  But what Cameron’s done is kick off 3D technology. If the trend catches on, in a decade or two, your TV, your laptop, your cell phone could all be 3D ready.

                          

We are pleased to announce the official launch of millionants productions.  Yes, today, January 25th we officially open for business!

Although millionants is not new to producing amazing visual experiences, we now will collectively produce under the millionants name.

“I am thrilled to be a part of such a talented team and we are more than ready to start helping clients engage in their creative process.”  We have an amazing responsibility to deliver the best visual experience that millions have ever seen” echoed the CEO of millionants, Kari Miller.

“Making a Scene” is the millionants tag line……..what does that mean?

Check out the About Us page on our website.  We deliver 3D animation,video, and or film in various mediums including interactive experiences, training and education, military simulations, corporate video, commercials, interactive walls, interactive games, iPhone applications, and interactive tradeshow experiences.

We look forward to plugging you in!  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube